In our review of Sisterhood: A Hyde Street Story #5, Sophie fights for control of her body, and Violet is trying her best to end Karma.
Sisterhood: A Hyde Street Story #5
Writer: Maytal Zchut
Art and Main Cover: Leila Leiz
Variant Cover: Bryan Hitch
Page Count: 32 pages
Release Date: December 24, 2025
This review contains spoilers
Sisterhood: A Hyde Street Story #5 picks up right where the last installment left off: with the sorority house ablaze. Various sisters are evacuating, and River is trying to get Karma to leave, but Karma doesn’t want to leave. That place is so tied into who she is, she can’t bring herself to abandon it.
Sophie’s still trying to regain control of her body, but Violet insists on keeping it, claiming to put herself first for once. She shoves River into the flames as she tries to escape, as Sophie battles the spirits of the deceased sisters on the other side. They try to convince her to stay there, since Violet always tended to be the one to pull her out of her comfort zone and she’d be better off there.
But Sophie, acknowledging that they have a point, continues the fight. She manages to resurface, and she, Violet, and Karma all end up in the pool where it all started. Sophie intends to kill herself to get Violet to stop, and the girls end up having a talk. Violet realizes that Sophie came to fear her, and insists that she remember the good times. Sophie can’t promise that.
Sophie’s pulled out of the pool by Karma…who has her arrested. She’d told the cops the truth, which of course sounded like bull to them. And some time later, Sophie gets a visit in jail from Karma, who claims to forgive her…
But it turns out that Karma’s not really Karma anymore and Violet had hopped bodies during Sophie’s near-death experience. So now, she can truly get revenge for her own death and promises to keep visiting Sophie (much to her displeasure).
This sort of ending makes perfect sense for the story, I think. Sophie and Violet get a chance to sort of talk things out near the end of Sisterhood: A Hyde Street Story #5, and Violet holds no true ill will toward Sophie…but after everything she’d done in her bid to get revenge, their friendship got soured anyway. When Sophie thinks of her lifelong friend from now on, there’s no way she won’t remember how it was to have her body hijacked by a vengeful ghost. Plus, murder was that one line she wasn’t willing to cross, whereas Violet was angry enough at how her life ended to leap right over said line.
At the same time, despite having her body to herself again, Sophie will probably never be free of Violet’s ghost. She was so desperate to see her bestie again that she’d turned to the occult and messed with forces that she probably shouldn’t have. And so, she’ll have to live with the consequences of that…her Karma, if you will.
As for Karma, she’d lost everything she cared about. Since Violet said that she was much easier to fully take over than Sophie, that could very well be because she felt she had no reason left to fight. Even considering her role in the hazing that brought on the entire plot in the first place, there’s still some amount of sympathy to be found, in her case.
As for the artwork, the poses and panel compositions were beautifully dynamic. There are a few points where we see Violet-in-Sophie’s-body among the flames and Sophie’s soul trapped with the dead side by side, like a sort of reflection. The flames and smoke as panel outlines? Also a great touch, I think. It guides the eye through the page and keeps the reader hooked throughout the scenes.
But a favorite thing of mine with this one’s artwork? When Violet-in-Karma’s-body comes to visit Sophie in prison. Her face begins to slowly and subtely change as she reveals to Sophie who she really is now. Karma may not have been an absolute sweetheart of a human being, but when her air becomes more and more sinister with each panel, it’s a sign that something isn’t quite right.
Final Thoughts
Sisterhood comes to a fiery conclusion in Sisterhood: A Hyde Street Story #5, and it’s definitely worth the read. It’s a satisfying end to an intense story, and it really brings the whole thing together.
